10 results match your criteria: "Department of Emergency Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.[Affiliation]"

Background: Use of ultrasound (US) for procedural needle guidance can improve success rates, safety, and accuracy. Often, training is performed on task trainers, which can be prohibitively expensive. Determining undesired needle placement is difficult when the needle is poorly visualized with US.

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This case report presents a rare complication of hepatic cystic echinococcosis in a 12-year-old Latino male, residing in a nonendemic region, who developed long-term sequelae of portal vein thrombosis accompanied by the emergence of a hyper-vascular sigmoid colon mass. Portal vein involvement in hepatic cystic echinococcosis is exceedingly uncommon, with limited documented cases. The presentation of the patient included intermittent hematochezia, abdominal pain, and fatigue.

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Utility of COVID-19 antigen testing in the emergency department.

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open

February 2022

TriCore Reference Laboratories Albuquerque New Mexico USA.

Background: The BinaxNOW coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Ag Card test (Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough, Inc.) is a lateral flow immunochromatographic point-of-care test for the qualitative detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleocapsid protein antigen. It provides results from nasal swabs in 15 minutes.

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